Sundale Apartments Are Well on Track for 70,000 Apartments Across Australia’S the Elegant Podium Tower Base Makes Completion by September 2016
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ABOVE THE REST The Sundale Apartment's stunning tower consists of spacious and luxurious apartments with spectacular views and 5 star resort style facilities inside which includes an aquatic centre and an outdoor resort podium pool with sundeck and broadwater views, gym, childcare centre and Sundale Retail Precinct with Woolworths. Australia’s largest residential apartment apartments, rising 55-levels to showcase the accelerated up the tower, reducing the developer, Meriton, has built up an magnificent views of the ocean, the marina, overall construction program. enviable business over 50-plus years. Hinterland and the Surfers Paradise skyline. It has developed and built more than Sundale Apartments are well on track for 70,000 apartments across Australia’s The elegant podium tower base makes completion by September 2016. eastern coast including some of the tallest a stunning statement and features a residential towers in Sydney, Brisbane and grand lobby entry, retail specialty stores “We adapt to market conditions, on the Gold Coast. and exclusive resort facilities. Sundale predict housing trends and design boasts two indoor aquatic centre’s with to suit our customers’ ever changing Meriton Founder and Managing Director, heated lap pool, spa and sauna; outdoor needs. Collaborating with some of the billionaire property entrepreneur Harry resort swimming pool and sun deck world’s leading architects and designers, Triguboff is passionately involved in the overlooking the Broadwater and a fully we implement innovative design and design and construction of all projects, equipped gymnasium. construction methods to create apartments which set the benchmark for sophistication that exceed our customers’ expectations,” and high quality. Sundale Retail Precinct comprises of a full said Meriton’s National Construction line Woolworths supermarket, medical centre Manager and Director, David Cremona. Meriton offers a superior choice of residential and pharmacy, as well as an assortment apartments for sale and rent, along with desirable dining options. Childcare also rises Being self-funded, Meriton’s size and scale luxury serviced apartment accommodation. to new heights with on site childcare centre allows them to undertake major projects Each apartment development is an on Level 5 which overlooks the central park. with certainty. They offer stability no matter evolution in quality and design, driven what the market conditions, with a proven by an understanding of the way people Coordination between the architectural track record of completing every single want to live. and engineering teams allowed Meriton project they have started – something no to design the building without transfer other developer can offer. The Meriton’s latest Gold Coast development, slabs. A unique site specific form work Sundale’s sculptural form can be seen for system was developed onsite so that the For more information, contact Meriton, miles. The glass building design of 25,000 building and columns were poured at Level 11, Meriton Tower, 528 Kent Street, sqm of windows and metal louvres were the same time, whilst the main deck was Sydney NSW 2000, phone 02 9287 2888, fax designed with inspiration from the One trailing one floor below. This innovative 02 9287 2777, email [email protected], Hyde Park, London, UK. Sundale has 551 system enabled finishing trades to be website www.meriton.com.au 186 QLD PROJECT FEATURE SUNDALE APARTMENTS AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION REVIEW WWW.ANCR.COM.AU QLD PROJECT FEATURE SUNDALE APARTMENTS 187 Below Infinity Constructions QLD provided a versatile self-climbing formwork system for the 57-levels Sundale Apartments. Infinity Constructions QLD is an above ground, three basements below street established commercial formwork company level, 464 luxury apartments with outstanding working on high-rise developments in views and a mixture of commercial and retail. and around South East Queensland. Their implementation of new and innovative “Successful project outcomes never occur construction structural systems sees them by good fortune or chance, at Infinity we associated with some of Australia’s leading continually observe, recognise and believe all developers and construction companies. good development outcomes start with the structure and the positive performance of “At Infinity Constructions QLD we’re the formwork company,” stated Hugh. committed to safety, value-adding and unique fast tracking systems that deliver,” said “Our Infinity team includes in-house engineers Managing Director Hugh Owen. “Our highly and experienced builder/developers. Together professional team are focused on setting new with the client they assist with the design, specific formwork benchmarks and ‘lifting the bar’ project structure detail, and offer alternative and delivering successful structural outcomes structure system options to value-add to the on all projects.” project. Once we have fully understood and analysed the project thoroughly, including client “The company was established by requirements, we finalise the methodology experienced, like minded, talented individuals and the formwork system to be used. Then who have worked together for 25 years, lock-in and set our key philosophy — ‘Intention, playing varied key roles on many major Commitment, Deliver’.” landmark commercial projects,” continued Hugh. “We focus on suitable projects where From the initial design process through to along with the developer or builder we can structural delivery, safety considerations are collectively deliver successful results.” always Infinity Constructions number one priority and focus. At Sundale Apartments Infinity Constructions QLD delivered all the formwork structure. Infinity’s Safety Manager, Chris Cassar said “On Sundale, we used the Meva-Dec their objective is to maintain an accident free horizontal floor system, along with workplace. “In all planning and work activities OM Engineering Formwork Jump System, health and safety is our first consideration. We where we maintained 5-day floor cycles,” provide a continuous program of education said Hugh. “We have the largest self-climbing and learning to ensure that our employees vertical system operating in Queensland.” work in the safest possible manner. We ensure potential accidents or incidents are controlled Self-climbing formwork is highly efficient for and prevented by undertaking an extensive high-rise construction. It’s versatile, flexible, hazard identification and risk analysis of the fast and capable of adapting to different workplace prior the project commencing geometries. Being technically more complex and then we ensure the work team is totally self-climbing formwork requires specialised committed to achieving our objectives.” handling, something Infinity Constructions QLD is renown for. Infinity Constructions QLD also worked with Meriton Group on the 74-level Soleil Tower The self-climbing system is a formwork and 81-level Infinity Tower in Brisbane. support structure for the construction of Other projects include the 91-level Skytower walls and other vertical structures without a and Laguna Newstead Central and St Tropez crane and operates on a electric screw jack or Newstead Central for Hutchinson Builders, mechanical mechanism. The climbing process The Beach Apartments for Brookfield consists of successive electric screw jack being Multiplex and The Qube and Tallahassee climbed simultaneously. It is also equipped Boardwalk Apartments for The Morris with components for horizontal and vertical Property Group. plumbing and positioning of the formwork. For more information contact Infinity Sundale on Broadwater is situated at 2 Como Constructions Pty Ltd, 3/191 Sandy Creek Crescent, Southport on Queensland’s Gold Road, Yatala QLD 4207, phone 07 3287 2724, Coast and is another quality Meriton Group email [email protected], project. When complete there will be 57-levels website www.infinityconstructionsqld.com.au 188 QLD PROJECT FEATURE SUNDALE APARTMENTS AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION REVIEW WWW.ANCR.COM.AU QLD PROJECT FEATURE SUNDALE APARTMENTS 189 Below ASSA ABloY Hospitality Oceania provided the locks and external readers for Sundale Apartments. ASSA ABLOY Hospitality (formerly “Meriton Serviced Apartment Operations VingCard Elsafe) is the global leader in Division specifically requested the integration hotel security technology. Its products to increase efficiency on the front desk and have been installed in more than 42,000 therefore improve the guest experience while properties worldwide, securing eight they were at the hotel. To do this we had close million hotel rooms. cooperation with both our and Kone’s research and development teams,”said Michael. The company is part of ASSA ABLOY Group which has 44,000 staff, owns Meriton Serviced Apartment Operations operations in 70 countries (even Australia Division selected RFID technology locks brand Lockwood) and works in about rather than the traditional magnetic stripe 170 countries including through its cards as card reading is better these days business partnerships. The hospitality smart phone’s are affecting the magnetic division’s security and technology solutions stripe on the cards which causes problems for include, VingCard electronic locks, guests using the cards to access their rooms. Elsafe in-room safes and Orion energy management systems. The RFID locks installed at Sundale can be activated for use with mobile phones VingCard locks were invented in 1974 meaning the guest’s will not require a card